Quotes with third-world

Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 3019.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Kin Hubbard All the world loves a good loser.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • John Hay All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bill Frist America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Clive James Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Andrea Dworkin As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Be the change you want to see in the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Macdonald But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Albert Schweitzer By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
    Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
    Source: The Emperors Old Clothes
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
    Gerda Lerner
     
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  • Thomas Fuller Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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